On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:52 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > Please note that this (1792MB) is the highest that I could set for
> work_mem.
>
> Yeah, that's almost certainly part of your problem.
>
> You need to make that number MUCH smaller. You probably want a value
> like 1MB or 5MB or maybe if you have really a lot of memory 20MB.
>
> That's insanely high.
>
> ...Robert
>
Initially, it was the default value (32MB). Later I played with that value
thinking that it might improve the performance. But all the values resulted
in same amount of time.
--
Mohammad Farhan Husain
Research Assistant
Department of Computer Science
Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science
University of Texas at Dallas